Facilities

The School of Music is comfortably housed in Mabel Wood Hall, a 44,000-square-foot
masonry building, first occupied during the fall semester of 1981. Included are 10
teaching studios/offices; 24 practice rooms; two classrooms; choral and instrumental
rehearsal rooms; an electronic piano lab; and a Mac computer lab.

Practice Rooms

Seventeen practice rooms are furnished with upright studio pianos, three six-foot
grand pianos, a two-manual Keith Hill harpsichord, and a two-manual three-stop Brombaugh
tracker organ. Several practice rooms contain only a music stand and chair for instrumental
practice.

Labs

The electronic keyboard lab has 11 Yamaha keyboards (10 for students, one for the
teacher's station), and is used for aural theory and basic musicianship classes, as
well as class piano. The Mac Lab is located on the second floor of the building. It
houses 12 computers with MIDI keyboards for use in music theory, composition, arranging,
and orchestration classes.

Ackerman Auditorium

Ackerman Auditorium is a 258-seat recital hall located in Mabel Wood Hall. Instruments
permanently assigned to this room are two Steinway concert grand pianos and a 14-stop
mean-tone tuned Renaissance organ built by John Brombaugh. The stage is large enough
to accommodate a 50-piece ensemble and is used for rehearsals and concerts by both
soloists and ensembles. Artists performing in this auditorium commend its fine acoustics.

Organs

In addition to the several practice organs housed in the music building, the university
owns a 70-stop Brombaugh tracker organ, housed in the Collegedale Seventh-day Adventist
Church located on campus. This instrument is used for lessons, practice, and concerts.

Pianos

Southern Adventist University is honored to be the 100th All-Steinway School. As an
All-Steinway School, Southern joins the now well over 100 colleges, conservatories,
and universities that enjoy the same designation—schools that, like Southern, have
more than 90% Steinway and Steinway-made pianos for their students, faculty, and guest
artists to use for study and performance.